[Tic Disorder, Tourette's Syndrome] Tic Disorder Symptoms: Motor Tic, Vocal Tic (1)
So many people, so many lives. The world we live in is indeed a complicated and confusing place in many ways. In particular, there are numerous kinds of diseases and people live in pain. While there are diseases that have been identified medically, there are so many diseases for which the cause and reason cannot be specified. While there are physical ailments, there are also mental ailments such as depression. Regardless of age, it is our reality that men and women of all ages suffer from various diseases and have to live patiently. It may be sad, but you may have to accept and live with the unavoidable reality. Among various diseases, there is one that is attracting attention these days, and that is 'tic disorder'. It is known to occur a lot, especially in young children, but this is not always the case. Not only children and students, but also adults often suffer from tic disorders, and in particular, I saw a man in his 50s suffering from it. In the 1990s, there was a significant lack of medical and social understanding of tic disorders, so it was not known for what reason what symptoms appeared. I just looked at it as a nameless bad habit, and I tried to stop it by scolding or putting pressure on it. However, as medicine developed, understanding of ticks increased and people's interest also increased. Eventually, it was discovered that it was not simply a habit, but a disease caused by a specific brain imbalance, and the number of hospitals trying to treat it gradually increased. Currently, it has become a disease that relatively many people are interested in, and it has appeared frequently in media such as news and YouTube, and the cause and reason of the disease are gradually being revealed.
What are the symptoms of tic disorder? (1)
In English, it is called tic disorder, and it refers to sudden movement or shaking of the body or repetitive utterance of a specific voice without knowing it.
Movement of the body is called 'motor tic', and making a specific sound is called 'vocal tic'.
[Motor tic]
The parts of the face, eyes, neck, shoulders, arms, legs, etc. move quickly, regardless of one's will. They move certain facial muscles, blink their eyes, turn their eyes, bend their necks, or stretch their arms or legs with strength. I have a strange unresolved feeling that I can't stand, but after flinching, that feeling is instantly relieved. However, at the same time as it is resolved, it immediately returns to the unresolved feeling, so in the end it is repeated over and over again. The unbearable stuffiness and the movement to solve it continue. If I have to put it into words, it is like this, and a person with real ticks moves repeatedly without calculating moment by moment. Even if you concentrate your mind to stop and keep your body still, if it's short, it's a few tens of seconds, if it's a few minutes at most, you'll tic with that unbearable feeling again. So, a person with a tic is a series of pain from moment to moment and cannot have a comfortable mind and feeling. When I try to concentrate on something, tics come out without a doubt and it is very difficult to concentrate. Someone with a tic disorder might ask, "What does it feel like to be still?" It is so painful and mentally and physically exhausting easily because of the movement I don't want to ask. One curious thing is that the location of motor ticks often changes. Sometimes it's the neck, sometimes it goes to the arms, sometimes it goes to the legs. Regardless of the will, the position changes, and after the change, it is fixed, and the tick of the position continues for some time. It is a very strange and frustrating disease. Because you move your body repetitively, it takes a lot of strength physically, you sweat a lot, and you spend a tiring day as you struggle to endure not to do it. In the case of severe motor tics, they may hit, scratch, or pinch themselves, or even hit the person next to them at a moment's notice. Or, when you are holding a mouse while working on a computer, you slap the mouse on the desk. In other cases, while eating, the surface of the soup is hit hard while holding the spoon. I've also seen people sitting on a chair and then suddenly lifting their hips up and making a jumping tic. There is a tic of pouring water while tilting a cup filled with water toward the floor, and a tic of trying to momentarily put your hand on a gas stove. When browsing the Internet on a computer, the window window keeps turning off, and when viewing something on a smartphone, the back button is repeatedly pressed. (It may be a bit difficult for the viewer to understand, but it is a real tick.) In addition to this, it appears in a variety of ways. The peculiar thing is that I keep doing things that have negative feelings, such as turning off, pouring water, or trying to burn my hand on a gas stove. There is no positive behavior, and tic disorder develops towards negative things. It's hard to put into words, but it really is. These symptoms are really hard to bear in everyday life, but when you sleep, all these symptoms completely stop and you don't do it at all. Sleeping time is also the happiest and most comfortable time of the day. It is a sad thing indeed that one becomes comfortable only when one is unconscious.
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